Candlelight Proposal

I'm just back from a few days at DL and will be posting a trip report over the next few days but right now I want to post an idea I had for CP.

Now before you all have a cow, please consider the idea fairly.

I thoroughly enjoyed CP but between the ticket fiasco and the crowds on Main Street it occurred to me there must be a way to make this work better.

So my idea for 2007 is this.

Still do the CP on Main Street the first weekend, thats tradition and should continue.

But then move it over to the Hyperion in DCA for the rest of the month.

The theater could be converted over the month of November for the show and they could run the program as they do in Florida, with several shows a night over the Fri-Sun weekend and more during the Christmas week.

If you figure the theater seats around 2,000 per show, 3 shows a night over 3 weekend days gives us 18,000 seats. Figuring 3 weekends thats 54,000 and adding more shows during Christmas week we could have many more people see the shows.

As to the seating, they could sell the lower level with some sort of dinner package and make the upper levels first come first serve.

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Correct me if I am wrong but didn't they once do it at the Fantasyland Theatre? BUt this is a good idea, it would also get people into DCA and out of DL atleast for a short time. I think this is a great idea!

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After the Anders/Sunnygirl news, I also read this as a proposal at the Candlelight ceremony! I think because this is such a traditional event, that you may find some resistance from people that enjoy that it's at Disneyland and has been for decades. You might notice on these boards that anything that doesn't involve DCA being turned into a parking lot meets with criticism. I think it's an idea worth considering, however, and the improved capacity, better acoustics, and "all weather" capabilities of the theater as a venue for the candlelight procession are all selling points.

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Candlelight doesn't serve the same purpose at Disneyland that it does at WDW. Disneyland does Candlelight to thank its many sponsors and partners. Disney World does Candlelight because Disneyland does Candlelight. It loses its specialness if you do it every night. The decision to create a special AP thingy for the ceremony created raised expectations that the event was not designed to meet. While the ceremony has seen many changes of venue and content over the last fifty years (well, almost), it lasts one weekend. Always has, always will.